The truth of the matter is by analysing each raid encounter that I do and working out better ways to optimise my performance in regards to ability use/positioning etc. I will gain more dps increases than using manual reforging compared to an automatic reforge tool.

However when I look at my logs I don’t ever want to miss and if you armory guilds like paragon they will all be hit capped unless there is no benefit to actually being capped (Tanks is some cases etc). Why do I bring this up? because guilds like these do encounters in the minimal amount of gear possible, if being below hit cap was optimal you would see it. They don’t because they study the logs and know that if two people miss on an add it could mean death to the tank in another two globals and maybe if that add died the tank would have survived.

What I want and at a guess most people want from an automatic reforge tool is to minimise any loss of stats If I am over the cap, I don’t mind being 0.25 over hit cap if it’s optimal while making sure I’m capped. If I’m 0.80 over hit cap I want to be able to come to a site like AMR and see if it can suggest a better reforge to minimise the stat loss or suggest maybe a different piece of gear which will get me closer to optimal setup.

Instead of giving me math based on the chances of missing and saying its not worth it, can you tell me how much dps gain I would get from being slightly under cap and getting 0.25 more crit? Is it worth it? I don’t think so. How do you improve performance? You minimise the variables and maximise the constants, being capped is something that’s going to be constant. If your capped you never have to think about it again and actually focus on the important stuff like playing the game which is why most end game raiders worth their salt make sure they are capped.

On another note sites like this attract a lot of beginners just starting to raid etc. Teaching them that being below cap is O.K. is not the best thing. Guild applications or GM/Officers looking at their members gearing will say get capped or why aren’t you capped? irrespective of any argument you provide here.

I understand statistics but I also understand reality.

Phil Hellmuth’s play style in NL Texas Hold’em poker is based around statistics, he plays a lot of tournaments and performs very well because overall the numbers are eventually going to come his way the more hands he plays. However in some tournaments the numbers will go against him so much its almost impossible for him to stay in a tournament irrespective of how tight he plays.

You and I may never be hit by lightning or even know anyone who has, however there are people who put themselves into a situations which increases their chances and have been hit multiple times in their lifetime. Even if you go and play golf during lightning storms you may never get hit, that doesn’t mean people who decide not to play golf that day are irrational and don’t understand statistics. At the end of the day if you get hit and die your dead.

My point is that being slightly above the hit cap and losing some minor stat is not going to make any enough of a dps difference so why not statistically remove the chance of missing entirely. That means when your in a situation where you only have 10 globals to do damage then you know every one of your damaging abilities will hit. Your argument is based on statistics over a long time and mine is based around individual and sometimes very short situations.

If I use a damaging ability 1000 times (1 sec each) @ 50,000 damage per hit and I miss 5 times, then my max dps will be 50,000 and my actual dps will be 49,750 so it’s not a big loss.

Now if I use an ability 10 times (1 sec each) @ 50,050 and miss once my actual dps is 45,045 however If I cap myself my dps will be 50,000. If I miss once over 10 ability uses I need a dps gain of over 11% (55,560 per hit) to just edge in front of the guy who is capped.

In wow you don’t get 100,000 goes at something, sometimes you only get a few of hundred when raiding on each encounter and in pvp it’s even less so when that bad rng hits you and not the other guy you die and he doesn’t. When your under geared and need every global to count and you get bad rng then you wipe or you get another set of adds because you couldn’t push the boss past 50% to start the next phase and you wipe anyway because you run out of time.

Being capped = Being consistent and being able to rely on your abilities 100% of the time.

Being slightly under capped = Gaining very little with the chance of the RNG gods giving it to you hard.

For a lot of casual players I would say meh whatever, but when you are running a site which is used as a tool to optimise gear in a game like wow that has end game raiding and pvp you are going to attract a lot of people who care about the small things and being capped is always going to be number 1 unless Blizzard decide to change the way the game works.

I’m a big believer in life to focus on things that you can control/effect and can have a big impact on your life. You might say I don’t believe in being capped so why should I add a setting to be capped on my site which in turn may make people not use it because you can’t set it as an option in the first place. A lot of people use reforgelite and even that has its problems. However a site where someone can just load up their character, change some settings (caps included) but also recommend upgrades and where to get them from without having to deal with small quirks (reforgelite needs manual adjustments to get the best results, wowreforge’s interface is clunky) will be a very popular tool. More people coming to this site I would presume will benefit the site.